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EDWARD IVILLIAM PARISH, OF LEICESTER, ENGLAND.

LOW-PRESSURE STEAM APPARATUS FOR COOKING, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 61 5,741, dated December 13, 1898.

Application filed February 7, 1898. Serial No. 669,409. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD WILLIAM PAR- 1811, a subject of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria, residing at Mona House, South Knighton, Leicester, in the county of Leices ter, England, have invented certain new and useful improvements in low-pressure steam apparatus for cooking, steam-generatin g, water-heating, drying, evaporating, and similar purposes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in low-pressure steam apparatus for the purpose as above described and shown in the form of a jacketed pan with geyser attachment thereto.

According to my invention the apparatus consists of an outer cylinder or jacket A, made of stout iron of the desired dimensions. Into this outer cylinder is placed a food-containing pan B, having an indented or undulated bottom I), which increases the waterspace between it and the bottom I) of the outer pan. (Seen partly in section and partly in dotted line, Figure 1.) Said bottom is arched and comes immediately over the center of the furnace, which is of the ordinary charac ter and specially arranged to receive the outer cylinder or jacket A, represented in the drawings accompanying this specification, in whicl Fig. l is a side elevation, partly in section, of the complete apparatus; and Fig. 2, a side sectional elevation of the feed-cylinder or geyser attachment.

At a suitable distance from the bottom water-space in the outer pan A is introduced the cold-water-inlet pipe D, leading from the expansion-chamber F (see Fig. 2) of the feedcylinder G. The upper or hot-water-outlet pipe E is filled at the required distance above, so that the heated water or steam passes therethrough and enters the upper part of the expansion-chamber above the water-line and escapes or is forced when required for serving out a constant supply of hot Water or other liquid from the tube or pipe II in the direction of the arrow shown. This is accomplished by the attendant, after starting the furnace, supplying the feed-cylinder with cold water or other liquid into the mouth thereof, as indicated by the arrow shown, from any suitable source of supply.

It will be observed upon 'reference'to Fig. 2 of the drawings that the wall of the expansion-chamber, mantle, or hood F does not reach the bottom of the feed-cylinder, a space being left; if it reached to the bottom perfo rations would have to be made at about the same point.

The supply of hot water or other liquid is not limited by'the cooking operation which is going on in the inner pan B. YVhen a temperature of 205 Fahrenheit has been reached, the surplus steam coming through the tube or pipe II can be conveyed to a steam chest or chamber of any suitable kind. In the construction of the jacketed apparatus the annular ring I is bolted to the top edge of the outer pan and carries the flanged edge of the inner pan B, so allowing of said inner pan to be removed for cleaning purf poses by removing the screws h or the bot tom of the outer riveted cylinder can be cleansed of any sediment that may congre= gate by the attendant removing the screwplug b and pouring water into the mouth of the feed-chamber or geyser G. The lid shown covering the inner pan is not necessary when the apparatus is required for evaporating liquids, grain, or the like.

The feed attachment or geyser G may be connected to any ordinary single or double boiling-pan or an auxiliary device, such as a bath, in providing the same with a continuous supply of hot water without interfering with the cooking or evaporating operation.

I am well aware that double cooking utensils having return-pipes for returning hot water to the boiler have been used, but the employment of a feed-chamber or geyser attachment not returnable to the boiler whereby a continuous supply of hot water or other liquid can be obtained by supplying the attachment with cold liquid without interfering with the operations conducted in the lowpressure apparatus is believed by me to be new, and 7 hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' In an apparatus for cooking, and the like 7 purposes, the combination of an outer recepnear the bottom of the chamber, and an outtacle A, adapted to rest upon a furnace, and let-pipe communicating with the space inprovided with a cleaning screw-plug 11 of an closed by the mantle or hood above the openinner receptacle B adapted to rest upon the ing of the pipe E, substantially as described.

5 edge of the receptacle A, and a trumpet- In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my 15 mouthed feed-chamber secured to and comhand in presence of two witnesses. municating with the receptacle A by means EDWARD WILLIAM PARISH. of the pipes D and E, said feed-chamber lVitnesses: having a hood or mantle covering the open- MARION DUTTON,

1o ings of the pipes D and E and extending to MAY DUTTON. 

